Improvement in cheese-vats



N. M. WELLS, Jr.

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Patented Dec. 11, 1877.

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ATTORNEYS.

N PETERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

'NATHANIEL M. WELLS, JR., FILLMORE, ASSIGNOR OF O NE-HALFHIS RIGHT TOJASON S. BISHOP, OF HUME, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN CHEESE-VATS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 198,172, dated December11, 1877; application filed October 13, 1877. I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NATHANIEL M. WELLS, J r., of Fillmore, in the countyof Allegany and State of New York, have invented a new and valuableImprovement in Cheese-vats; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description of the construction andoperation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings,makinga part of this specification, and to the letters and figures ofreference marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawings is a representation of a longitudinal verticalsection of my cheesevat, and Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof.

My invention relates to. tilting or rocking cheese vat s; and itconsists in the construc tion of jointed connections between the.supply-pipe and the pipes under the vat, as will be hereinafter morefully set forth.

The annexed drawings, to which reference is made, fully illustrate myinvention.

A represents the bed or base upon which the vat is placed. B is the vatproper, placed in a box or tank, 0, and this box or tank rests upon acentral rocking bar, a, placed on the bed A. b is the inlet to the pipesunder the vat, and D is the pipe overhead, for supplying steam to thepipes cl.

In cheese-making it is necessary to have the vat tilt or tip up,let-ting the curd run down to one end, so that it can be easily dippedout. The usual way of connecting the pipes D b, so as to allow of suchtilting, is by means of rubber hose, which is always getting out oforder, bursting, burning out, slipping off the pipe, leaking steam, &c.

To obviate these difficulties Iconstruot such connections of a series ofshorttubes, d d, connected in angular form by means of elbows h h,forming a series of movable joints,

so that the vat can be tipped or tilted without uncoupling the pipe.

The tubes or pipes d are provided with reverse screw-threads on theirends--that is,

right thread on one endjand left on the other end-so that they caneasily be unscrewed and taken apart when necessary.

I am aware that supply-pipes with movable joint-connections are notbroadly new with me, and therefore I lay no claim to such invention; but

What I claim as new, and desire to secure cheese-vat, of jointedconnecting-pipes, ar-

ranged between the supply-pipes and the pipe under the vat, as and forthe purpose herein set forth.

In-testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two'witnesses.

NATHANIEL M. WELLS, JR.

\Vitnesses W. R. DEMOREST,

DAVID P. BROOKS.

